Overall, Brave is a fast and secure browser that will have particular appeal to cryp.

“When comparing the two browsers, both Firefox and Brave offer a sophisticated level of privacy and security by default, available automatically from the very first time you open them. What I find interesting by all the users that say Firefox is the answer, Mozilla sees brave as their twin when it comes to privacy. (features-we-disable-or-remove)#services-we-proxy-through-brave-servers#services-we-proxy-through-brave-servers) You can read more about it in this comment:Įdit: As mentioned in the comments, Brave does NOT make requests to Google servers. It is completely client sided so I crossed that claim too.

Request to Google servers: When you have Google safe browsing activated, yesĮdit: It now got mentioned a lot in the comments that it is not true that the Brave Rewards track you.

Rewards: Yes, they can be used to track you, but you can just disable it.

Whitelist: This seems to still be partially true, they do it to not break some webpages.

Brave collects telemetry and you cannot opt outĪfter I read through a lot of articles and reviews, I do not find any strong evidence that the claims are true, with a few exceptions:.

Brave makes request to domains, also to track you.

Hardcoded whitelist in their AdBlock for Facebook, Twitter.

What have researchers to say about Brave.

So following is what I found and what I concluded, looking forward to your comments! Sections of my post: Also sorry for any mistakes on the grammar side, not my first language. What I write here is what I found and concluded with the sources I provide at the end of the post. All my sources will be listed on the end of the post.ĭisclaimer: I am not a specialist so take everything you read here with a grain of salt. So, I will mostly do research with DuckDuckGo searches and papers. I am in no means a software engineer so I will only briefly look into the source code of Brave, to see if I spot something out of the ordinary. I just switched to Brave from Vivaldi so I was worried and wanted to investigate the claims, because what are my privacy steps worth if I use a browser that tracks me? I will only look at Brave not Firefox or other browsers. Mostly Brave got accused to being a non-privacy browser with trackers and other unsecure stuff.

I created this post because under the comments of my last post, that was about my deGoogle path, was a discussion between Brave and Firefox (Hardened).

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